6 uses
- I looked at my watch, and saw that I could barely save that engagement.Chapter 12 (85% in)
- For the first time I began to realize an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged.Chapter 4 (71% in)
- I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil.Chapter 4 (82% in)
- We were soon seated together in a little stone arbour, engaged in conversation, chiefly of smiles.Chapter 5 (53% in)
- I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and other hands behind me plucking at my clothing.Chapter 6 (76% in)
- But I had my hand on the climbing bars now, and, kicking violently, I disengaged myself from the clutches of the Morlocks and was speedily clambering up the shaft, while they stayed peering and blinking up at me: all but one little wretch who followed me for some way, and well-nigh secured my boot as a trophy.Chapter 6 (93% in)
There are no more uses of "engage" in The Time Machine.
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